“If the chief moves he will be shot,” he added, in the Xosa language.

The worst of it was the latter were unable to talk the Xosa tongue.

Xhosa

noun

plural-saor-sasa member of a cattle-rearing Negroid people of southern Africa, living chiefly in South Africa

the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family: one of the Nguni languages, closely related to Swazi and Zulu and characterized by several clicks in its sound system